Description:
Lothal, the mount of the dead, is the most important excavated sites in the recent. This place which is hardly 90 kms from Ahemedabad, offers the view of neat structures those were built nearly 4000 years ago. One of the southernmost outposts of the Indus civilisation, and certainly one of the most interesting of Harrapan town planning, Lothal is the unique lock gated dockyard and perhaps the greatest maritime architecture of the ancient world.
The Harrappans arrived here in 2400 B.C. and Lothal developed as the most important port and a centre of the bead industry until 1900 BC when the great flood resulted in 300 years of decline. But even before that, knowing the potential of the fertility of the land and the bead trade, the Harrappans had raised huge colonies and settlements with all the amenities. A trip to Lothal gives an insight of the superb planning of people who lived nearly 4500 years back without the use of any technical device.
